Re: Blocking Gmail ads
2008/5/14 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@gmail.com>:
> On 13/05/2008, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I now _miss_ the ads in gmail, as they are almost always
>> relevant to what I'm reading.
>
> While Google got the relevance right of putting Matlab ads when I'm
> reading the Octave mailing list, their insistence finally got annoying
> enough for me to want to remove them.
>
> C'mon. I'm using Octave and talking to its developers precisely
> because believe[1] that mathematical software, above other software in
> particular, must be free. Matlab annoys me to no end, especially since
> it's a de facto standard. I don't need to be annoyed while I plot a
> better tomorrow with my comrades. ;-)
>
That is true. However, why don't you work directly with GNUplot for that? :)
Dotan Cohen
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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